Blame always gets thrown at the Steem blockchain. A frontend with a great UI would make a huge difference. An all tags trending page isn't necessary. People should be visiting Steemit with particular content in mind. Steemit should facilitate content discovery and exploration with the use of categories or something similar.
Each category could have hot and trending pages but the algorithms need to measure real engagement. Upvotes, downvotes, non-spam comments, and increase in value. Pending payout shouldn't be a particularly important metric. If a post has been sitting on $300 for 6 hours it shouldn't be trending. A trending post should be increasing in reward and payout and not stagnating.
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Agreed. More thought needs to be put into this. What we have now does not work and ruins the outward appeal.
Im notnsaying remove the upvote values from the algo. Im saying introduce more metrics.
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